Insights into how the auditory system processes time and information are guiding audio design beyond traditional measures of fidelity.

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The Harvard Museum of Natural History will host a special Science Spotlights in-person event on Saturday, April 4, from 2:00–3:30 pm, featuring emerging scientists across Harvard, including MCB’s […]

A new study in Current Biology (PDF) sheds light on how a critical protein underlying hearing evolved to perform its specialized role in vertebrate sensory systems—offering a rare […]

Integrating evolutionary analysis, structural modeling, and electrophysiology, Akyuz et al. show that TMC1 and TMC2 arose by gene duplication and evolved specialized extracellular regions. In TMC1, an...

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The discovery of the earliest clay ornaments in Southwest Asia (15,000 years ago) made by children and adults is reported.

Synchrotron imaging of fossil and extant coelacanths reveals that the lung of extinct species likely served both respiratory and auditory functions, transmitting sound pressure to the inner ear via a ...

Julia Ioffe’s new blend of history and family biography takes on the contradictions of female selfhood in Soviet Russia, from achievement to marginalization

Virginia Woolf admired Jane Austen above all for her ability to grasp the exceptional moment – ‘in which all the...

Brunkow received her Ph.D. from Princeton in 1991 in molecular biology. She shares the award with Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for discoveries about how the immune system is kept in check.

Diverse magnetotactic bacteria are adapted to the local geomagnetic field and grain size to maximize their swimming speed through the pore space.

Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say the...

It is the least convincing cliché of the age that ‘globalisation has passed its sell-by date.’ On the contrary,...

An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

During Elizabeth Gould's brief career as an ornithological illustrator, she made a significant contribution to the natural history of birds, as Katherine Marshall discovers.

A lawyer for Harvard, Steven Lehotsky, said at Monday's hearing the case is about the government trying to control the "inner workings" of Harvard.

Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards

Read a short story from Franz Kafka’s Selected Stories, featuring beautiful illustrations as well as authoritative annotations and all-new translations by Mark Harman (“the finest living Kafka transla...

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Researchers from Canada and Australia have discovered that harriers possess auditory adaptations similar to owls, including enlarged ear openings and specialised brain regions for sound localisation. ...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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The olfactory system can detect an uncountable number of volatile molecules while retaining the ability to discriminate amongst very similar ones. We identified a unique mechanism employed by insect o...

Second chapter of a powerfully original film series about the science of evolutionary biology. The series is for a general audience and has particular importance…

A traditional folk song of resilience and determination that gained popularity (and some new verses) during the civil rights movement of the 60's. Popularly sung by Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Mavis Stapl

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